Mindfulness-based therapy

Mindfulness-based therapy uses meditation techniques and the insights that arise from them to alleviate suffering and foster well-being. It operates at the cognitive level in challenging and providing an alternative to default ways of dealing with psychological difficulties. It operates at an experiential level when meditation is practiced on a regular basis. Meditation becomes a vehicle for learning and self-healing that promotes physiological awareness. It has proven to have beneficial effects by relaxing the mind and body and optimizing brain functioning.

Mindfulness (sati) is the element of watchfulness, the lucid awareness of each event that presents itself in successive occasions of experience.—-Bhikkhu Bodhi

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.—-Sylvia Boorstein